Michelle Williams (Destiny’s Child), Tina Knowles-Lawson (Profiled: The Black Man), Romeo Miller (Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection) and Antonio Cupo (Blood and Treasure) star in T.D. Jakes’ WRATH: A Seven Deadly Sins Story, Saturday, April 16, 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT on Lifetime TV.
WRATH will be followed up Saturday, April 23 with GREED: A Seven Deadly Sins Story also airing at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT and starring Monique Coleman, LisaRaye McCoy (A House Divided), Eric Benet (Real husbands of Hollywood) and Nathan Witte (Merry Liddle Christmas Baby).
Executive produced by T.D. Jakes, Shaun Robinson and Derrick Williams, WRATH and GREED are the latest installments of the Seven Deadly Sins anthology which is based on a series of books written by Victoria Christopher Murray.
In WRATH, Michelle Williams plays single attorney Chastity Jeffries, a woman who seemingly has everything. She gets entangled in a relationship with fellow lawyer Antonio Cupo (Xavier Collins) who is obsessive, insanely jealous and dangerous. Chastity seeks advice her life from her mother portrayed by Tina Knowles-Lawson and her childhood friend, Roger Thompkins (Romeo Miller) to escape Xavier’s wrath and save her life. But is it too late?
Monique Coleman stars as Zuri Maxwell in GREED, an interior designer who is blessed with a career she loves, an adoring good man – Stephon Gardner (Nathan Witte), wonderful friends and family. But in comes GREED and challenges all of her happiness. She meets handsome, wealthy benefactor Godfrey Anderson (Eric Benet) and his aunt, Miss Viv (LisaRaye McCoy). The two have what Zuri thinks she wants in life. She leans into the greed factor and her world turns upside down as she tries to fit into their money hungry circle. WRATH: A Seven Deadly Sins Story and GREED: A Seven Deadly Sins Story are produced by Wrath Productions Inc and Greed Productions Inc respectively in association with T.D. Jakes Enterprises and RobinHood Productions. Troy Scott served as director. The scripts were written by Richard Blaney and Gregory Small (Wrath) and Wuese Houston-Jibo (Greed).
WRATH and GREED were proceeded by LUST and ENVY, the first two made for tv original movies in the series. LUST and EVNY debuted last year to the tune of 9.8 million viewers. If that’s any indication to the appetite of the faith based audience for dramas and the Seven Deadly Sins series’ power to pull in viewers, WRATH and GREED should be successful. WRATH and GREED will air on back-to-back Saturdays, April 16 and April 23 at 8 p.m. CT/7 p.m. CT on Lifetime TV.